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  • But then I see spiked described as 'conservative', while the Virtual Stoa is - wait for this - "British conservative - God, democracy, anti-communism".

    July 24, 2005 Laban 2005

  • But then I see spiked described as 'conservative', while the Virtual Stoa is - wait for this - "British conservative - God, democracy, anti-communism".

    Archive 2005-07-24 Laban 2005

  • But then I see spiked described as 'conservative', while the Virtual Stoa is - wait for this - "British conservative - God, democracy, anti-communism".

    Major Links Update .... Laban 2005

  • A building called the Stoa of Hadrian, a ground-plan of which (fig. 5) I borrow from Miss Harrison's _Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens_, has been identified with part at least of that which Pausanias describes in the above passage.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • Suddenly there was a shrill cry of alarm, with the word "Stoa" resounding from a hundred tongues.

    The Lost World 1912

  • Suddenly there was a shrill cry of alarm, with the word "Stoa" resounding from a hundred tongues.

    The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • _ "Stoa"; Schmekel, _Die mittlere Stoa_, 85 foll., 238 foll.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • Along the shore run five great stoas or colonnades, all used by the traders for different purposes; -- among them are the Long Stoa (Makra 'Stoa'), the "Deigma" (see section

    A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

  • Stoa, meaning a portico or veranda (John 5: 2; 10: 23; Acts

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • They supported centers of higher education that laid the foundations of Western thought: first Plato's Academy and Isocrates' school of rhetoric; then Aristotle's Lyceum, Zeno's Stoa and Epicurus' Garden.

    Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011

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